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11 Actions Sales Management Must Take Now!

Your Sales Management Guru

11 Actions Sales Management Must Take Now! Sound investment portfolio-management advice ranges from “hold firm with your existing stocks” to “take advantage of a great opportunity to buy at today’s basement prices”. This also is an opportunity to build a better sales team that will increase your market share as competitors lag.

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Should Salespeople Prospect Anymore?

Your Sales Management Guru

In many organizations marketing is expected to develop leads via a well messaged nurturing campaign with a quality data base with an objective to set-up the salesperson with a highly qualified opportunity. In this format there maybe a series of marketing campaigns, tele-sales people and a well-designed CRM reporting system.

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How to Build Your LinkedIn Center. Social Selling 3.0

Tony Hughes

2015 will see the dawn of the rise of "LinkedIn Centers" to steadily replace traditional B2B marketing activities for demand generation and phone based telemarketing for lead generation (in-house or outsourced). hit-team campaigns on two fronts: Engaging LinkedIn communities where the target executives participate or monitor.

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It’s a Scary World Out There!

Your Sales Management Guru

While everyone maybe thinking of their Halloween costume or what tricks or treats they may provide, as sales leaders we must consider the bigger picture. Campaigns should be focused to the specific job title you are attempting to address. Sales Management Consulting' All of these fears impact your planning actions.

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Build Your 2017 Pipeline NOW!

Your Sales Management Guru

At this time of year it is not unusual for salespeople and sales managers to simply focused on closing business to achieve their yearly objectives, maximize their compensation plans and unfortunately drain their pipelines. January can be a good month with leftover sales opportunities but many sales teams face a weak February/March.

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Increasing Velocity is a Critical Success Factor

Your Sales Management Guru

Last Friday my topic was “Accelerate Your Business in 2015”, during the program I covered a variety of ideas, techniques and tools the audience could use to drive increased levels of sales pipeline values and revenues. A portion of what I spoke about was from a recent blog: The One Must Do Action Step to Ensure a Great 2015!

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July is Sales Leadership Month

Your Sales Management Guru

July is Sales Leadership Month. As a sales leader you must always have a vision and action plans for a rolling six months, this is why July is the perfect month for anyone that has sales management responsibility—so why not name it Sales Leadership Month ! Did the quarterly sales training plans work?